Damon Runyon citations (5 citations)

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“Always try to rub against money, for if you rub against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”

A Very Honorable Guy

“Some day, somewhere … a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son … do not bet him, for as sure as you do you are going to get an ear full of cider. (From the short story The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown, Collier's Weekly, January 28, 1933. Used with slightly different wording in the musical Guys and Dolls -- both the 1950 stage and the 1955 film versions.)”

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“I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.”

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A Nice Price
Compare with Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds — if it was a bet you wouldn't take it."

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From the short story The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown, Collier's Weekly, January 28, 1933. Used with slightly different wording in the musical Guys and Dolls -- both the 1950 stage and the 1955 film versions.

“Mathewson pitched against Cincinnati yesterday. Another way of putting it is that Cincinnati lost a game of baseball. The first statement means the same as the second.”

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New York American (July 16, 1911); reproduced in The Greater New York Sports Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=A2UaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=%22first+statement+means+the+same+as+the+second%22+runyon&source=bl&ots=Pp278uraUi&sig=ACfU3U1qsQVI53-UKcPcqaPgJos3wquNPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG5NLuh8flAhVtvFkKHbINDMcQ6AEwCnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22first%20statement%20means%20the%20same%20as%20the%20second%22%20runyon&f=false (2009)